Hamas has revealed its proposed terms for a hostage deal that was passed along to Israeli officials, including releasing 50 prisoners for every female soldier, and a permanent ceasefire, according to a report on Friday by Qatari stated-owned news source Al-Jazeera.
According to the report, Hamas wants its terms for a hostage deal to be carried in three stages, with each stage lasting 42 days.
Countries like Britain and the United States are friendly to Israel. That is the official position. After the October 7 attacks, both governments immediately condemned the atrocities and supported Israel’s right to self-defence.
Yet if one counts up all those governments’ public pronouncements on the Israel-Gaza conflict, one finds the great majority are criticisms of Israel. Ministers do not defend Hamas, of course, but they usually mention it only in passing, or not at all.
A photo tweeted by Global Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly Thursday night of her meeting in the West Bank with the territory’s leader has drawn outrage from Israel supporters who noticed the photo also includes the Jewish Liberal cabinet minister Ya’ara Saks holding hands with Mahmoud Abbas, known for antisemitism, Holocaust denial and supporting terror.
Could someone please tell Canada's foreign minister and Canada's minister of mental health and addictions that Abbas is a raging anti-Semite and Holocaust denier?
Outrage over Abbas's antisemitic speech on Jews and Holocausthttps://t.co/tlbFHjfUJx https://t.co/Qg9Dcmz1Bx— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) March 15, 2024
This is so fecked up it’s funny.
US President Joe Biden will consider conditioning military supplies to Israel if the Israeli army moves forward with a large-scale invasion of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to four US officials.
Biden has also told MSNBC that a Rafah operation would cross a “red line,” although he balanced that statement with a commitment to support Israel’s right to self-defense.
Swap would include people serving life sentences which Benjamin Netanyahu’s office describes as ‘unrealistic’
Hamas has demanded the release of up to 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 100 people serving life sentences, in return for vulnerable Israeli hostages, in a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel’s war cabinet will meet to consider the deal on Friday, which was first reported by Reuters, but prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Thursday it was based on “unrealistic demands”.
Those who had a lot to say about the Freedom Convoy are strangely silent about the pro-Palestinian demonstrators
This past weekend, downtown Ottawa was occupied by a huge crowd of protestors. They danced, shouted angry slogans, banged on drums and created a noisy, inconvenient disruption for local residents and businesses. They even set off smoke bombs, creating hazardous air quality for bystanders and law enforcement.
Sound a bit familiar? Yes, there were some obvious parallels with the Freedom Convoy. But there were also a couple of very big differences. There were many more frightening messages directed at fellow Canadians this time, including “All Zionists are racists” and “All Zionists are degenerates.”
Professor Abraham Wyner showed that the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry has been “faking” casualty numbers, in an article for Tablet Magazine on March 7.
A professor of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Wyner provided a detailed analysis of the data from the Gaza Health Ministry, which showed that they had, at the very minimum, been doctored – and at worst, completely faked.
In a display of all the modesty of which he is capable during a Thursday speech, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer anointed himself the voice of “so many mainstream Jewish Americans” — a “silent majority” whose sentiments he alone could divine. After all, there are few better stewards of Jewish interests than Schumer, according to Schumer. “My last name is Schumer, which derives from the Hebrew word ‘shomer,’ or ‘guardian,’” he began. As he has in the past, Schumer assumed for himself the “responsibility as a ‘Shomer Yisrael’ — a guardian of the people of Israel.”
Since Oct. 7, 2023, external humanitarian aid has primarily had to enter the Gaza Strip via the land crossing at Rafah, which is run by Egypt.
Gen. Abdel Fatteh El-Sisi, the ruler of Egypt for the past decade, is as committed as Israel to the goal of keeping arms out of the hands of terrorists, so Israel trusts his government in Egypt to vet these shipments and ensure that armaments aren’t smuggled in among the convoys of food and beverages that cross every day.
“What all Europe refers to as liberty is, perhaps, something rather pedantic, rather bourgeois in comparison to our need for order—that’s the point,” wrote Thomas Mann sometime between 1913 and 1924, when he was working on his great novel The Magic Mountain. Yet these words, written a century ago, seem to speak directly and meaningfully to everyone living in Europe today. There’s something particularly foul about the leftist voices that are speaking up in our times, especially since October 7th, 2023. The call for ‘Ceasefire Now!’ presents itself as eminently human, practical to the exclusion of all sophistry. ‘Just stop the killing,’ the slogan insists, ‘Don’t get complicated with subtle explanations’—even the not-so-complicated explanation that Israel is responding to the unprovoked massacre of its people. So deeply does the raw concern for human life run, apparently, that we need thousands of people taking over city spaces in order to illustrate its urgency. People’s daily routines need to be disrupted. ‘Wake up to reality!’ and ‘Remember the children!’ are the sorts of messages the world needs to hear, and ever more vividly and loudly as the weeks go by.
The federal government is deliberately slow-walking a request from Israel for permission to import Canadian-made armoured patrol vehicles, two sources tell Radio-Canada.
Shortly after the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens — which left about 1,200 people dead and some 250 others taken hostage — the Israeli government sent a request to the office of Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly for clearance to import about thirty armoured patrol vehicles from Ontario manufacturer Roshel.
Trudeau’s influence makes Joly even dumber.
In the West Bank, we met with President Abbas to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the future governance of the Palestinian Authority and the work to advance towards a two-state solution.@YaaraSaks pic.twitter.com/MJzwUIljcO
— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) March 14, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for an election in Israel to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the US’ most vocal opposition of the prime minister since October 7 during remarks Thursday from the Senate floor.
Canada pledges help for Palestinian sex-crime victims, angering Israeli envoy
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly has announced funding for Palestinian women who have survived sexual violence, drawing an immediate rebuke from a senior Israeli official.
Joly pledged $1 million for women from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip whom her office described as “survivors of sexual violence, no matter the circumstance.”
Joly’s office would not say whether Canada believes Israeli forces are perpetrating sexual violence on women in Gaza, nor if the funding pertains to domestic abuse in the Palestinian territories.
Now Junior is sending his GF out to whore for Hamas votes.
Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen on Tuesday found himself the target of a police raid mere hours after publishing a video ridiculing Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema’s defense of allowing a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the opening of the city’s Holocaust museum over the weekend.
Police in the Netherlands visit Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen after he made jokes about the mayor of Amsterdam. pic.twitter.com/izDEHkc2D8
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) March 12, 2024
A New Generation of Islamist Political Power
The response in state legislatures to the Hamas Islamic terror attacks of Oct 7 showed how thoroughly Islamists have infiltrated our political system and the threat that they pose.
In Delaware, Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, the first Muslim elected in Delaware, heckled Vice President Kamala Harris at a Christmas party, demanding that Israel stop attacking Hamas.
